Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Fourth stage of the preemptive context-switching plan, and the biggest. LithosAnanke now genuinely, continuously preempts between Hera, Hermes, and Artemis -- timer-driven, running live for the entire remainder of every boot once the Tripod fleet registers, not a bounded probe. A real design fork was resolved before writing code: the naive approach (the timer ISR calling Stage 2's sk_vm_context_switch() directly) is broken -- Stage 0's trap frame lives on whatever stack was active at interrupt time, and jumping to a different stack via Stage 2's own independent swap mid-handler would abandon that trap frame unresumed, guaranteed corruption on the first tick. Chose the safer of two named options: the ISR only ever sets a flag and returns completely normally through its own full epilogue; the actual switch happens moments later, via Stage 2's already-proven mechanism, at a safe cooperative checkpoint on the mainline (execute_colon_word()'s per-word dispatch loop, checked on literally every word, not throttled to the existing 256-word heartbeat-tuning cadence) -- confirmed with the user that word-level granularity is fine-grained enough given the eventual Zynq FPGA target where a word is a mnemonic. New capsule_vm_switch_signal.c/.h: a purpose-built run-readiness signal, deliberately separate from capsule_vm_physics.c's execution-heat engine (that one's own header documents itself as never touched from interrupt context, by design). Slot table sized with headroom (8) rather than hardcoded to today's 3 participants, so extending participation later is another register() call, not a redesign -- per direct request to leave room for swapping the participant set. Simple linear accumulate-then- threshold for this first cut; a fancier law can replace it later without touching the mechanism around it. heartbeat_tick() gains its one deliberate, documented amendment to this file's own top-half/bottom-half discipline -- the first time this codebase reaches into VM-scheduling state from real ISR context. Registration happens only after all three VMs are fully born, right before the REPL starts -- no critical-section protection yet against being switched away mid-birth-setup. Known, flagged rough edge (not reconciled this pass): MSG-TICK's own idle-pump and this new mechanism can still independently move control between the same VMs; not observed to interact badly in verification, but not fully unified either. Verified interactively at the console on all 3 architectures with continuous background preemption running throughout -- amd64 computed `1 1 + .` -> 2, aarch64 computed `1 1 + dup DUP * . CR` -> 4, both correct, REPL fully responsive, zero fault indicators over sustained runtime. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016UNhH1mhi52i6Qihh7ZV5S
experiments/
Design of Experiments (DoE) campaign data and analysis for the LithosAnanke kernel.
bare_metal/— the bare-metal DoE experiment: blind full-factorial 2⁴ runs measuring the L8 Jacquard mode selector's effect on the Steady-State Machine across amd64/aarch64/riscv64. Seeexperiments/bare_metal/README.mdfor the full directory layout (runs/,latest/,analysis/{charts,tables,report}).
Hosted-VM DoE campaigns (factorial/heartbeat/ablation studies) live under
docs/working/experiments/ instead — this top-level directory is
specifically the kernel/bare-metal side.